Prosecutors claim Lynch was one of two people armed with a handgun who broke into the house at 11.15am on Wednesday, February 1 this year, as Swain waited in a car nearby.

The jury heard how the male occupant of the house ran upstairs and barricaded himself into the bathroom, while his female partner, who had been asleep on the sofa, escaped through a ground-floor window.

Neither was injured but were badly shaken by the experience.

The couple’s two young children were at school at the time.

The family has since moved to live in Spain.

The court was told Lynch was arrested a few hours later with a third man after their Toyota Celica crashed into railings on the A45 in Tile Hill during a high-speed police chase.